On Thursday 30 October 2003 13:22, John Haxby wrote:I think we're at cross purposes. The stuff in /etc/security/console.perms works just fine -- normally. I get the ownership of the /dev/nvidia* files correctly set when I log in using gdm. There isn't normally a problem and you don't have to change anything when you install the NVidia drivers.
Nicolas Turro wrote:
i use a RedHat 9 box with an Nvidia graphic board and i am usingI would imagine that you have a problem with a solution different to
Nvidia's driver to obtain graphic 3d acceleration.
Currently VTK/opengl complains about permissions on /dev/nvidiactl
that described in the NVidia docs. On my machine, ls -l /dev/nvidia*
gives
no, no, the nvidia solution works like a charm (removing dri lines
in the /etc/security/console.perms), but 1- i wonder why Redhat put those lines in /etc/security/console.perms
in the first place
2- does Redhat has any other recommendation to solve the issue ?
Hmmm. Are you logging in with gdm or do you log into the console and run startx? I always use gdm to log in and I've never had a problem. I notice that the <dri> lines in /etc/security/console.perms refer to <xconsole> ...
jch
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